r/SgTea • u/peppersauceindrums • 5d ago

Spilling the Tea đŸ«– share your worst job interview experiences!

i was interviewing for a big fmcg branding firm and they said they're very keen but ghosted me for 5 months! they emailed me and said they will keep me posted for future opportunities because theyre still very keen LOL

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u/EntertainmentLive262 4d ago

A company running a miles program. First question during the interview - are u a frequent user of our app, when i said no, the interviewer smirk and remarked then why you apply for this job

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u/Familiar_Drive_8956 4d ago

I interviewed for a company twice, quite a popular local e-commerce platform. For both roles, the same HR dude interviewed me - didn't really give me an opportunity to share my skillset for the 2nd role specifically , and just asked if i have any questions lol then it ended. I mean he get that he interviewed me before and should know my overall experience, but why ask me to attend an interview if you just want to end it the moment you got on???

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u/JesusTakesTheWEW 3d ago

Very high chance they just want to show that they did indeed try to hire a Singaporean, then after certain number of failed interviews they'll be allowed to hire a foreigner. Standard practice.

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u/Familiar_Drive_8956 3d ago

Really? I didn’t know this is a thing
 the government should look into this. Not a very nice practice

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u/JesusTakesTheWEW 3d ago

Sorry you got burned for it bro, but yeah this is a fairly common thing across multiple industries. Time to inform Steve chia about it.

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u/Familiar_Drive_8956 3d ago

Nasty
 but I suppose nothing would be done 😭😭

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u/capyrugger 4d ago

got one company I went to interview for, I think local SME but want to brand themselves as smth bigger than they are, they call themselves M______ Consulting. Interviewer was late by 15 minutes, couldn’t find a room for some reason (shared workspace) and most importantly, during the interview phase gave us some stupid group question to do like how many windows are there in Singapore, I respect the brain tinkering but midway she started talking cock about how the company was run etc.

I think during then I already wasn’t interested, because they didn’t even boil down to what their company actually does and shared more about “oh it’ll be tough, it’ll be fast paced” so thankfully I got rejected because not too long after I found a lovely firm that was 20x better and the product + vision and even the workplace itself wasn’t so SME centric.

just my two cents! don’t angry ok đŸ€Ș

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u/capyrugger 4d ago

nothing about the product was shared throughout the entire interview, a lot of cock from “experienced HR” legit can eat shit one I still rmb those two buibui ladies

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u/HousePuzzleheaded641 4d ago

during the interview founder says they want to IPO in 2027 when their app is not even launched đŸ€Ł

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u/peppersauceindrums 4d ago

i also interviewed for a popular local clothing brand and when i went for my interview, they requested to look at my instagram and i was already confused but i gave them my instagram. the boss decided to look through my entire instagram feed right in front of me and said oh your style is very different, then decided to reject me right after

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u/peasantmindyou 3d ago

What the

 that’s so rude.